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BEAUTIFUL BONES

PITCH @ SURGE

BIG RORY AND OCHIE THE DOG

BUG N’ BUZZ

MUSIC ON CYCLES

THE BAND AT THE END OF THE WORLD!

HAND//SHAKE

BORN

DEFINITELY, MAYBE NOT OASIS

MOTHER’S RUIN

CLOWN CABARET

SAT 11.08 and SUN 12.08 15.00-15.45

FRIDAY 10.08 20.00 (doors 19.30)

SAT 11.08 and SUN 12.08 13.30-14.10 and 16.00-16.40

SAT 11.08 and SUN 12.08 14.30-15.00 and 17.00-17.30

SAT 11.08 and SUN 12.08 12.30-13.20 and 16.15-17.05

SAT 11.08 and SUN 12.08 13.45-14.45 and 16.30-17.30

SAT 11.08 and SUN 12.08 13.30-13.45 and 16.00-16.15

SAT 11.08 and SUN 12.08 12.30-13.00 and 15.00-15.30

SAT 11.08 and SUN 12.08 13.15-13.50 and 15.45-16.20

SAT 11.08 and SUN 12.08 14.00-14.40 and 16.30-17.10

SAT 11/08 20:00 (doors 19.30)

BEAUTIFUL BONES

BIG RORY AND OCHIE THE DOG

Love Music Productions and Surge feat. Metropolitan Brass Band

A COLOSSAL THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL PAN-DEMONIUM ABOUT DEATH!

Beautiful Bones is about death, the inescap-able and final act of being alive. The west is spectacularly disinterested in death, especial-ly our own. The rituals that surround death are left to others while we look away, pre-tending it is not for us.

Beautiful Bones pays honour to human passing with irreverence and black humour – greeting death as a friend to be made welcome. The Four Horsemen of the Apoca-lypse spread their doom until confronted by a massed trombone orchestra and a street party the likes of which have never been seen on the streets of Glasgow.

Surreal McCoy

A GLEEFUL GIANT SCOTSMAN AND HIS RASCAL OF A DOG.

Big Rory and Ochie the Dog are no ordinary street theatre act. A giant Scotsman and his endearing giant dog explode onto an audi-ence. Enormous in both size and character, people (and dogs) fall in love with Ochie and can’t help cuddling the rascally huge pup, who is full of surprises.

SAT 11.08 & SUN 12.0815.00-15.45

ROAMING AND BRUNSWICK STREET (SOUTH END)

http://www.lovemusic.org.uk/

SAT 11.08 & SUN 12.0813.30-14.10 and 16.00-16.40

ROAMING

http://bigrory.com

MUSIC ON CYCLES LADINAMO

LADINAMO IS FUNK ON THE MOVE - MU-SIC ON CYCLES. A UNIQUE BAND ON WHEELS.

Catalonia’s funkiest band on bikes! LaD-inamo is Funk on the Move – Music on Cycles. A truly unique band on wheels, determined to break the mould of more traditional street bands and take their funk to the streets in a wheely kind of way.

LaDinamo performs a high-voltage moving concert and generates a frenet-ic street party wherever it goes to the rhythm of Funk, Groove and Acid Jazz. LaDinamo will be travelling all over the Merchant City, catch them where you can and get your funk on!

SAT 11.08 & SUN 12.0812.30-13.20 and 16.15-17.05

ROAMING

www.ladinamo.cat

BUG N’ BUZZ Concordance

A MUSIC AND DANCE ACT WHERE EVERYTHING IS AN INSTRUMENT AND TIME AND SPACE ARE DISTORTED!

Bug n’ Buzz make up new rules, break all the codes and grasp the unexpected. Their ability to turn everything into an instrument and perform the most unique dance brings you along in a sensitive and collective experience, which distorts space and time.

https://www.cie-concordance.com

SAT 11.08 & SUN 12.0814.30-15.00 and 17.00-17.30

(or indoors if wet, 12.30 & 16.30. Check www.surge.scot for updates)

OUTSIDE METROPOLITAN BAR, CANDLERIGGS

THE BAND AT THE END OF THE WORLD!

HAND//SHAKE

Ramshaklicious

RAUCOUS, BRASS HEAVY, MUSICAL CHAOS, PERFORMED FROM AN APOCALYPTIC BAT-TLE-CHURCH.

Arriving in a cloud of raucous brass heavy music, driving their home made, water spurt-ing, flaming and smoking battle-church. Dressed in punk marching band attire & ex-isting within their very own miniature apoca-lyptic microclimate.

These idiots are convinced that the inventible end of the world is upon us, maybe today, maybe right here, maybe right now!

Katie Armstrong and Lucy Ireland

HAND//SHAKE IS A MOVEMENT SKETCH, MANIFESTING AS A MEETING BETWEEN TWO CHARACTERS.

HAND//SHAKE and HAND//SHAKE (b) are two movement sketches of geographically and intellectually accessible dance. The work resonates themes of openness, awkwardness and competitiveness. Choreographed by Ka-tie Armstrong and danced by Katie Armstrong and Lucy Ireland. Developed with support from Surge and Creative Scotland.

SAT 11.08 & SUN 12.0813.45-14.45 and 16.30-17.30

ROAMING AND BRUNSWICK STREET (SOUTH END)

http://www.ramshacklicious.com/

SAT 11.08 & SUN 12.0813.30-13.45 and 16.00-16.15

HUTCHESON STREET

 

BORN

DEFINITELY, MAYBE NOT OASIS

Ramblers Teatro

A JOURNEY INTO THE MYSTICAL HEART OF MAYAN CULTURE.

A poetic performance transport viewers play-fully into a Pre-Hispanic Mayan world, where people are born from corn and where Jaguar Gods roam the ancient lands of Yucatan.

Through movement, masks, marionettes and music, Ramblers Teatro create dream-like imagery to explore Mayan origins and folk-lore. The tale follows K’iin, son of the goddess Ixchel, whose life journey takes him through jungles, pueblos and cenotes to realise his destiny and protect his homeland. Developed with Surge as part of our Street Theatre Bur-sary Programme for Surge Festival.

Biff and Cooper

A MADFERRIT NOSTALGIA-SODDEN GIG OF A LIFETIME...

Ah! The 90’s! The Union Jacked-up days of Cool Britannia! A time when Britpop - not Brexit - was the nation’s greatest export and ‘strong and stable’ made way for hope. Is it all a bit of a Blur? Then meet The Gallaghers; the mono-browed lairy laddish embodiment of sticky pub floor Britain.

Come sing-along as they furiously swagger their way down roads that are awinding to a simpler time and the gig of the 20th century. Look Back In Anger? You must be madferrit! Developed with Surge as part of our Street Theatre Bursary Programme for Surge Festi-val..

SAT 11.08 & SUN 12.0812.30-13.00 and 15.00-15.30

HUTCHESON STREET

SAT 11.08 & SUN 12.0813.15-13.50 and 15.45-16.20

ROAMING

MOTHER’S RUIN

CLOWN CABARET

Pigsticks Productions

SAY HELLO TO BABY, IF YOU DARE. MOTHER WON’T MIND.

Baby needs fed. Baby needs changed. Baby needs to play. Feed Baby if you dare. Mother won’t mind. The most demonic, obnoxious, mischievous baby is having a day out and he smells trouble brewing.

Mother’s Ruin is a giant puppet manifestation of the epitome of mother and child. Serene Mother and demonic Baby will be causing havoc in the Merchant City. Developed with Surge as part of our Street Theatre Bursary Programme for Surge Festival.

A DELIGHTFULLY DELIRIOUS EVENING WITH SOME OF SCOTLAND’S FINEST CLOWNS

A delightfully delirious evening with some of Scotland’s finest clowns. Allow them to test their funny upon your frown and launch you into the world of theatre clown! We have handpicked some Clown Cabaret favourites all looking for the place a clown loves best, to be in front of an audience. Join us to marvel in their mayhem and bask in their brilliance.

Clown Cabaret is the lovechild of Plutôt La Vie, Clownstepping and Melanie Jordan

SAT 11.08 & SUN 12.0814.00-14.40 and 16.30-17.10

ROAMING

http://www.jenniferkilgour.co.uk

SAT 11.08 - 20.00Doors 19.30

DRYGATE BREWERY - 85 DRYGATE

www.clowncabaretnight.com

PITCH AT SURGE

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INNOVATIVE PHYSICAL THEATRE SHOWCASE

An international and astounding line up of established and over-excitable performers showcasing innovative physical theatre, comedy, dance and high drama.

FRI 10.08 - 20.00Doors 19.30

DRYGATE BREWERY - 85 DRYGATE

www.surge.scot